Category Archives: sitka

Extreme budget framing

You start with some wrapping paper from Venice that’s also a sweet map. Then you go outside and find some sticks and lash them together with string. Finally you tack everything to the wall, drink a beer a feel very … Continue reading

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Twigs and Bourbon

This little post is twofold. One purpose is a test of new writer helper software I downloaded. (I accidentally posted a one-sentence draft of this, so, um, maybe I need more practice).The second reason is to share a little springy … Continue reading

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Ebb and Flow

Circle round everyone, for it has been a hell of a spell. I’m tuckered out from hand-sawing pallets, but I need to get my fingertips typing again before they forget how. March saw multiple planes touch down in Sitkatown laden … Continue reading

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Alaska Winter Warriors

People ask me many of the same questions about living in Alaska. They’re difficult to answer without prefacing: “Well Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas, so there are a lot of regional variations.” (See size domination in … Continue reading

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Extended Status Update

Not to blow my own bassoon, but I have accomplished a crap ton in the last 36-ish hours. I attacked the mundane, habitual and unsavory demons of dishes, laundry and recycling as a way of procrastinating the more complicated tasks. … Continue reading

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Oddlights: Cali to Lake Havasu, AZ to Laughlin, NV

(I decided to focus on the things that seem the strangest to me from day to day on this trip, thus the “oddlights.”) Leaving Blythe, CA I soon hit Ehrenberg, AZ which, as my trusty navigator (Mr. Holden) pointed out, … Continue reading

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Fishpocalypse at the Salton Sea

I’m sitting at the Courtesy Coffee Shop in Blythe, CA enjoying coffee, sunshine and eavesdropping. So far both conversations between the waitress and other patrons are about illness and lethargy – no one feels well enough to start decorating for … Continue reading

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Hoopty, Digs, Freelance & Whipstitch

New hoopty, new digs, new published freelance piece, newfound talent for whipstitch. What the hell is going on? Could it be a quaterlife crisis for our audacious protagonista? Nah – just a weird alignment of the stars that put everything … Continue reading

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Conquistadora

In honor of Adventurer Day, I made my virgin voyage to two different places in Sitka town yesterday. One might think I had conquistered every location available with two off-n-on years in a town of 8,000 inhabitants, but there are … Continue reading

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Kitchen Tart

Putting off writing and poking around Etsy.com recently, I redirected to the web page of that day’s featured seller (maya*made). There I found a recipe that tugged at my fall harvest baker delusions. I don’t know if this is common, … Continue reading

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